View from the North 40: They'll bite you when you're down

For all you people who feel like bad things keep happening to you when you’re stressed and overwhelmed by life already, a group of researchers at the University of Liverpool in England offers one more set of data to help prove that it’s not just a feeling, it is a fact and they say you should prepare to get bit. By a dog.

To clarify, the study did not say that sad sack, down on your luck, depressed, oppressed or otherwise bluer than blue people were getting bit while they were down, just the clinically neurotic, nervous people. Yes, that includes people who get anxious around dogs — because th...